Venture Guides · Nishkam

Email Triage

Monday September 21 2026
Last 7 days (Sep 14 - Sep 21)
215 emails reviewed
Current — Sep 21
Prior — Sep 18
Urgent + Important
Do now
8
SpartanX term sheet — IC today
SpartanX · Volition / Roslyn / VGIC
Today
Deal
Jesta Team Presentation — decision day
Jesta · Aviv Halfon / Team8 / Julia
Today
New
OpsMate IC scheduled for Sep 25
OpsMate · VG deal team
Sep 25
New
Clarity banker pitches — decision week
Clarity · Roslyn / Holzman / Bowen / Needham
Sep 24
Carried
Ray Security IC pitch tomorrow
Ray Security · Ariel Zamir / Holzman
Sep 22
Deal
Panoptic — Deal Update, co-lead question
Panoptic · Grove VC / Julia / Dave
Today
Carried
Vigilent — family emergency, reschedule
Vigilent AI · Rohit Unnikrishnan
New
New
Respond to Pandorian founder pushback
Pandorian · Daniel Avital
18d
Carried
Important · Not Urgent
Schedule time
7
Valydera — Oded Bizan follow-up call
Valydera · Oded Bizan
Sep 24
New
RailXia — VG deep dive Sep 23
RailXia · Lebin / Bear
Sep 23
New
Trustible.ai — Gerald awaits an answer
Trustible.ai · Gerald Kierce
Carried
Carried
TiE / Alok relationship — standing watch
TiE Boston · Alok Prasad
Sep 23
Deal
Compyl — board Tue, comp-plan follow-up
Compyl · Todd / Stas / unclear sender
Sep 22
Portfolio
Genesis retrospective meeting — Oct 13-14
Genesis · Holzman
Oct 13-14
Carried
Connect Spikerz founder with Memcyco
Spikerz · Naveh Ben Dror
Carried
Carried
Urgent · Not Important
Delegate or handle fast
3
Send Ariel the MSFT credit code
Ray Security · Ariel Zamir
16d
Carried
Reply to Palash on Pepper intro
Palash Soni · Pepper (Anirudh)
13d
Carried
Triage AccuKnox Series A inbound
AccuKnox · unread
8d
Carried
Neither
Ignore / delete
0
No items
Waiting on
4
Blyoum — would love your take
Blyoum · sent to Ian
14d
Blyoum — awaiting Aline on scheduling
Blyoum · sent to Aline Oliveira
11d
RE: Potential Investors — strategics list
Internal · SilverTech / Ehud Hai / Planven
18d
Clarity POV Go/No-Go — awaiting reply
Clarity · sent to Holzman
18d
Personal
0
Patterns this session
0
No feedback to process this run — Supabase feedback field was empty for the prior (Sep 18) session. 18 undone personal todos carried unchanged.
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SpartanX received a term sheet from Volition; Nishkam asked Roslyn for a VG IC update today and a Deal Update call is now on calendar 2:30pm ET — new top Q1 item.
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Jesta's Team Presentation to the full VG team is today, following mixed Team8 reference feedback (Amir Zilberstein) relayed by Dave yesterday — promoted from a Q2 market-category item to a Q1 decision-day item.
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New deal: OpsMate — appeared across multiple Deal Update calls this window and now has a Sep25 IC session on calendar; no visible originating email thread found in the mailbox, flagging for Nishkam to confirm context.
watch
New deal: RailXia — a 2-hour VG Deep Dive is on calendar for Sep23; limited mailbox context on how this entered the pipeline.
watch
New relationship: Valydera (Oded Bizan), met at the Startup Boston event Sep18, follow-up call confirmed Sep24.
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New First Call: Furl.ai (Joe), sourced by Josh Valentine — 30-min call today.
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Panoptic's Team Presentation slipped from today to tomorrow (Sep23); Grove VC's co-lead question from Friday is still unresolved ahead of tomorrow's materials.
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Vigilent AI call rescheduled after Rohit's son had an ER emergency this morning — handled with an open, no-rush offer of Wed/Fri alternatives rather than a hard reschedule ask.
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Clarity's banker process is converging this week — Bowen locked for Thursday 4:15pm ET, Needham still being finalized.
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Pandorian turndown pushback now 18 days unanswered (up from 15) — still held as escalated/contested, not auto-closing.
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A "RE: Questions" thread about Compyl comp-plan info arrived via what reads like a Superhuman reminder/snooze mechanism (sender and recipient both show as Nishkam) — flagged rather than guessing the true sender's identity.
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Opsin, Overwatch, CEVM, Minimal, B&T/Project Maya, Chenna Vemula, CISO dinner, and TiECon sponsorship signals all reconfirmed zero new genuine hits again this window — counts held, no promotion without Nishkam's explicit confirmation.
watch
Deploying to Cloudflare Pages via deploy_to_cloudflare.py; sandbox shell reachable this run.
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First calls
1
Furl.ai
Joe · via Josh Valentine
Genuinely new name, sourced by Josh Valentine — 30-min call today, 3-3:30pm ET.
Today
New deals
14
ZeroBEC
Michael Gorelik
Deeper-dive team call confirmed for Sep23, 3:30-4:15pm ET.
Sep 23
Oryo
Swaroop Sham / Prashanth
Nishkam reconnected last week after noticing Oryo in the AI track at TiE Con East; call today, 2-2:30pm ET.
Today
AKM (Autonomous Key Management)
Brian McGowan / Ashley Powell · via Ben Nye
Call kept slipping last week (Nishkam had to move it Sep17); no new activity seen this window.
Carried
Ethos
Eyal, Tamir, Itai · via Holzman
Follow-up call happened Sep18; still flagging for Nishkam to confirm whether this is a Holzman personal relationship or a fresh VG evaluation.
Carried
Divert
Mark / Jake / Gene
Connect call happened Sep18; no follow-up activity seen this window.
Carried
Omri Eival
Bear-sourced connect
Connect call between Bear and Omri happened Sep18; no follow-up activity seen this window.
Carried
Vigilent AI
Rohit Unnikrishnan
See active Q1 item — call rescheduled after a family emergency.
See Q1
Bulkhead
Yash Tulsani
Quiet since the Sep14 follow-up call — no new activity this window.
Carried
Blyoum
Aline Oliveira · AI reasoning layer for financial services
Two open threads — see Waiting On (Ian's review, and Aline's scheduling reply).
Carried
Zyras AI
Balaji Prasad
Quiet since the Sep10 positioning call — no new activity this window.
Carried
Corsound AI
Arkady Krishtul
Quiet since the Sep10 first call — no new activity this window.
Carried
Askeal
Roxane Suau
Quiet since the Sep4 intro-call recap — no new activity this window.
Carried
Zora
Rahul · AI Twin for Fitness Coaches, $2M Seed
No call scheduled — out of VG's stated B2B IT/Security focus per Nishkam's own reply to Palash. No new activity this window.
Carried
Yoonify
Reema · re-engagement via Anton's team
Reema reconnected Sep9 saying Yoonify is "at a very different stage" since an earlier pass. No new activity this window.
Carried
Turndowns
1
Pandorian
Daniel Avital
Turndown sent Sep3; founder pushed back with substantive counter-context. Still unresolved after 18 days — see active Q1 item, not closing this session.
Contested
Events
3
Boston Fintech Week: Fintech That Thinks
Various Boston venues
Multi-day gathering on intelligent finance, agentic automation and AI governance, per Zach's events update this morning. Tue Sep22 through Fri Sep25.
Sep 22-25
TiECon East 2026 Showcase & Awards — judge invite
Burlington Marriott · Oct 2
AI Track judging wrapped last week. Distinct from the still-unresolved TieCon sponsorship ask (Jenny) — see Q2.
Oct 2
CISO dinner (VG-hosted)
Tied to Pandorian relationship
Still in planning — team wants a keynote speaker locked before building the event around their availability. No firm date yet this window.
Planning
Notes for next run
Q1 8
Q2 7
Q3 3
Waiting 4
Personal 0
Venture Guides · Monday September 21 2026